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“turns out I’m really good at killing people.” The president added, “Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.” Ironic words for a Nobel Peace Pr

by D9u 13y ago

“turns out I’m really good at killing people.” The president added, “Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.” Ironic words for a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

x0054 13y ago
I think the "change" slogan on all those Obama posters referred to the change to his promises and projected morals.
- einhverfr 13y ago
  I think they hoped we'd believe in the change we we noted it was stamped with the words "In God We Trust."
  - samstave 13y ago
    Guns. Oil. Drugs.
dclowd9901 13y ago
I'm not sure even George Orwell could've written such a cynical reality.
actual_hacker 13y ago
Another huge piece of news from this article: - "The [SHENANIGANS] operation – previously undisclosed – utilizes a pod on aircraft that vacuums up massive amounts of data from any wireless routers, computers, smart phones or other electronic devices that are within range." - "The operator describes how, from almost four miles in the air, he searched for communications devices" - "VICTORYDANCE, he adds, “mapped the Wi-Fi fingerprint of nearly every major town in Yemen.” This is something we didn't even know is possible: drones are cataloguing the MAC addresses, BSSIDs, ESSIDs (unique identifiers for things like your iPhone and the wireless adapter on your PC, laptop, or tablet) of people's personal electronics, at the scale of cities, from so high up in the air you can't even see the drone, and they're creating "fingerprints" from it. That means what devices "belong" in what city. They don't suspect these people of any wrongdoing or criminal activity - how could they? They're monitoring entire cities. This is exactly what Snowden warned us about: the untargeted mass surveillance of entire populations. The next time you hear about domestic drones for police and "homeland security," remember this article. [The Day We Fight Back rally](http://www.thedaywefightback.org http://www.thedaywefightback.org) is tomorrow.
- contingencies 13y ago
  Sorry, we did know that was possible. It's well reported and obviously possible. Search even for amateur cantenna ranges and you'll see how far you can easily pull an SSID from (hint: many kilometres). If the above was news to you, then get more worried: Google catalogues SSIDs versus GPS from hundreds of millions (billions?) of client android devices. Even ones that aren't logged in. This is why geolocation is fast with android devices. Unsure, but it's quite likely that Apple does the same.
rgbrenner 13y ago
actual_hacker: you've been hellbanned. You only have two comments.. so I'm guessing someone didn't like your nic(?)
- ZoFreX 13y ago
  Perhaps they were banned based on their metadata.

by D9u 13y ago

“turns out I’m really good at killing people.” The president added, “Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.” Ironic words for a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

x0054 13y ago

I think the "change" slogan on all those Obama posters referred to the change to his promises and projected morals.

einhverfr 13y ago
I think they hoped we'd believe in the change we we noted it was stamped with the words "In God We Trust."
- samstave 13y ago
  Guns. Oil. Drugs.

dclowd9901 13y ago

I'm not sure even George Orwell could've written such a cynical reality.

actual_hacker 13y ago

Another huge piece of news from this article: - "The [SHENANIGANS] operation – previously undisclosed – utilizes a pod on aircraft that vacuums up massive amounts of data from any wireless routers, computers, smart phones or other electronic devices that are within range." - "The operator describes how, from almost four miles in the air, he searched for communications devices" - "VICTORYDANCE, he adds, “mapped the Wi-Fi fingerprint of nearly every major town in Yemen.” This is something we didn't even know is possible: drones are cataloguing the MAC addresses, BSSIDs, ESSIDs (unique identifiers for things like your iPhone and the wireless adapter on your PC, laptop, or tablet) of people's personal electronics, at the scale of cities, from so high up in the air you can't even see the drone, and they're creating "fingerprints" from it. That means what devices "belong" in what city. They don't suspect these people of any wrongdoing or criminal activity - how could they? They're monitoring entire cities. This is exactly what Snowden warned us about: the untargeted mass surveillance of entire populations. The next time you hear about domestic drones for police and "homeland security," remember this article. [The Day We Fight Back rally](http://www.thedaywefightback.org http://www.thedaywefightback.org) is tomorrow.

contingencies 13y ago
Sorry, we did know that was possible. It's well reported and obviously possible. Search even for amateur cantenna ranges and you'll see how far you can easily pull an SSID from (hint: many kilometres). If the above was news to you, then get more worried: Google catalogues SSIDs versus GPS from hundreds of millions (billions?) of client android devices. Even ones that aren't logged in. This is why geolocation is fast with android devices. Unsure, but it's quite likely that Apple does the same.

rgbrenner 13y ago

actual_hacker: you've been hellbanned. You only have two comments.. so I'm guessing someone didn't like your nic(?)

ZoFreX 13y ago
Perhaps they were banned based on their metadata.